Toiles Peintes and Sketching My Designs

Toiles Peintes is a French term meaning "painted linens" it actually was that a piece of heavy linen on which the tapestry under design construction was made to be sketched, and designed to be rigid enough, and durable enough that the design would be suitable for hanging. I actually prefer to do these on rolls of Japanese paper, as it's very handy to be able to cut off pieces of irregular sizes, I feel much more economical, and it suits the brushy style I like to write and draw when sketching.It's a great concept for those early knit sketches, especially to help me remember what I want to change up if I am adapting the design to a cushion or a hat or a pot holder. And I like to decorate my yarn stash room with these. My newest find is an antique album, and I use these sketches, or occasionally the swatches themselves  in place of the picture openings to create a unique heirloom all of my own.

Munsell's Coloring Wheel System

It's not always possible to match it all up. Usually I rely on eying the colors, or eying the stash more like it. I own several color design books, for decor, for paint, for photography, just for combining colors and learning what is "cool" and what is "hot" or autumnal, seemed pretty obvious at the start. But I'm starting to think the typical Munsell's Coloring Wheel System is not exactly powered for the light reflection of fibers. There are many ways that perfect color just doesn't match...or luckily visa versa. Will surf around for posts on matching color fiber.